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Report: over a thousand international students have had US immigration statuses terminated in 2025; a Caltech ML professor says it's harming the talent pipeline — An AI doctoral student in California had their SEVIS record — the digital proof of their valid student visa — terminated, putting their immigration status at risk.
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Paul Graham likened Palantir's ICE work to “infrastructure of the police state”; a Palantir exec said Paul's view is like Google's when it killed Project Maven — One of the founders of startup accelerator Y Combinator offered unsparing criticism this weekend …
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| Jane Lanhee Lee / Bloomberg: |
TSMC says its role in the semiconductor supply chain limits its ability to comply with export rules, after reports its tech was used in Huawei's Ascend 910B — “TSMC's role in the semiconductor supply chain inherently limits its visibility and information available to it regarding …
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Sources: Huawei plans mass shipments of its 910C chip, which combines two 910B chips and is comparable to Nvidia's H100, to Chinese customers as early as May — Huawei Technologies (HWT.UL) plans to begin mass shipments of its advanced 910C artificial intelligence chip to Chinese customers … | Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Meta is testing using AI tools in the US to detect teen Instagram users, even if they've lied about their birthday, and place them under Teen Account settings — On Instagram, AI tools will detect underage users and automatically change their account settings.| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky starts rolling out blue check verification, initially limiting verification to select organizations and its moderation team — Bluesky announced on Monday that it is rolling out blue check verification, confirming previous rumors that this feature was on its way to the platform.| Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing: |
Models like o3 and Gemini 2.5 Pro feel like “Jagged AGI”: unreliable, even at some mundane tasks, but still offering superhuman capabilities in many areas — Amid today's AI boom, it's disconcerting that we still don't know how to measure how smart, creative, or empathetic these systems are.
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In a clever attack, hackers were able to send phishing emails that appeared to come from “no-reply@google.com”, after a similar attack on PayPal users in March — In a rather clever attack, hackers leveraged a weakness that allowed them to send a fake email that seemed delivered … | Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
The US FTC sues Uber, claiming the company charged for Uber One without consent, made it difficult to cancel, and failed to deliver promised savings — - CNBC Councils — CNBC on Peacock — Join the CNBC Panel — Supply Chain Values — Select Shopping — Ad Choices
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Sources: Ola's AI venture Krutrim is looking to raise up to $300M, down from a planned raise of about $500M, after seeing poor investor appetite — New Delhi: Bhavish Aggarwal is looking to raise up to $300 million for his artificial intelligence venture Ola Krutrim, curtailing his ambitions …
More: Entrackr, Tech in Asia, and Inc42 Media
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Circle, BitGo, and other firms plan to apply for bank charters or licenses, as the Trump administration pushes to bring crypto into mainstream finance — Circle, BitGo and other crypto firms plan to apply for bank charters or licenses — Crypto is pushing deeper into the banking system.
More: Finextra, Watcher Guru, Cryptopolitan, Cointelegraph, Benzinga, CoinGape, CryptoSlate, crypto.news, and The Crypto Times
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A deep dive into AI as a normal technology vs. a humanlike intelligence and how major public policy based on controlling superintelligence may make things worse — An alternative to the vision of AI as a potential superintelligence — We articulate a vision of artificial intelligence (AI) as normal technology.
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